Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

All photographs are self-portraits.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Some people think it's wrong, being single isn't right. But if you hurt the right person, you'll be wrong all your life.

In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.